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Electing the President of the European Commission
(1995)
GALLAGHER, MICHAEL; MARSH, MICHAEL ANTHONY; Singh, Robert; Tonra, Ben; Laver, Michael
Electing the President of the European Commission
(1995)
GALLAGHER, MICHAEL; MARSH, MICHAEL ANTHONY; Singh, Robert; Tonra, Ben; Laver, Michael
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This paper is concerned with the legitimacy and accountability of decision-making in the European Union (EU). In the first half of the paper we argue that a straightforward and effective way to improve the legitimacy and accountability of EU decision making is to introduce popular elections for the office of European Commission President (ECP). These elections would engage European citizens directly and transparently in the affairs of the Union as it moved towards the twenty-first century, by involving them in a major election for high EU office. Other solutions either do not go far enough in terms of giving European citizens a say or are obscure, cumbersome and/ or contrary to the EU method of doing business. In the second half of the paper the authors drive towards specific proposals for the popular election of the ECP. Three key elements of these proposals are: the nomination process; the election system; and protecting the interests of smaller member states.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60522
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Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others
(2001)
Heylin, Greg
Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others
(2001)
Heylin, Greg
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Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others advocates evaluation as one powerful means of countering the fatalism engendered by the literature of the failure of prison and Foucault?s analysis of power. It argues that rather than prison itself being the failure, it might be characterised as a container of last resort for those whom society has failed or who have failed in society. Therefore, as well as evaluating aspects of prison and prison programmes it is necessary to evaluate other aspects of the criminal justice systems and social measures aimed at preventing crime. Seven case studies covering a range of programmes and methods are presented. Resistances to evaluation and possible responses to these are also considered.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60511
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Evaluating the Contribution of Technology Start-up Incubators – Exploring Methodological and Data-related Conundrums.
(2016)
Buckley, Anthony Paul; Davis, Stephen
Evaluating the Contribution of Technology Start-up Incubators – Exploring Methodological and Data-related Conundrums.
(2016)
Buckley, Anthony Paul; Davis, Stephen
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Policy makers in developed economies see merit in supporting the innovative abilities of technology entrepreneurs. It is hoped that from these highly–educated entrepreneur(s), new technology and service–based firms (NTBFs) can emerge. Indeed empirical evidence suggests that it is fast-growing young firms (Gazelles) which provide the bulk of new employment growth (Henrekson & Johansson, 2010; Storey & Greene, 2010). Technology start-up incubators are one of a number of micro-policy interventions with which the state attempts to support these technology entrepreneurs to develop and commercialise their innovations. Incubators offer a range of services such as shared office accommodation, shared support services, business support (hard), business advice (soft) and network provision (Bergek & Norman, 2008). They are typically located in or near universities as they generally fall under the universities knowledge transfer remit. Incubation programmes try to contribute to enter...
https://arrow.dit.ie/buschmarcon/150
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Exploring Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Ireland: Critical Discourse Analysis as a Methodological Tool
(2009)
Kiersey, Rachel
Exploring Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Ireland: Critical Discourse Analysis as a Methodological Tool
(2009)
Kiersey, Rachel
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The Irish government have invested considerably in the broad early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector over the last decade. However, a distinction persists within Irish policy between childcare and early education, both structurally and conceptually. Early education frequently refers to intervention based pre-school services; conversely childcare frequently refers to the broad spectrum of care services for 0-12 year olds, from family based child care through to centre-based provision (Hayes & Bradley, 2006; NESF, 2005; OECD, 2004). As a result of this, ‘early childhood services in Ireland are fractured across the welfare (childcare) and educational (early education) domains and … targeted in nature’(Hayes, 2008, p. 33). The National Children’s Strategy marked ‘the beginning of a shift towards using rights-based language in policy development … by strongly reflecting the UNCRC’ (Hayes, 2002, p. 49). The ambitious language of Irish ECEC policy documents is not always real...
https://arrow.dit.ie/csercon/10
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Facing Challenges: Irish Public Television in the Digital Age
(1999)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Facing Challenges: Irish Public Television in the Digital Age
(1999)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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This paper traces some of the main challenges facing public television in Ireland.
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserbk/9
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FAS and Active Labour Market Policy 1985 - 2004
(2005)
Boyle, Nigel
FAS and Active Labour Market Policy 1985 - 2004
(2005)
Boyle, Nigel
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This paper provides an institutional analysis of Ireland?s principal labour market agency and explores the politics of policymaking in active labour market policy. It considers the capacity of the Irish state to effect change, the pattern of governance that developed within this policy area, the associated ideological and political struggles and the broad consequences of these for social and economic policy. It argues that the Irish model of active labour market policy has combined an ambitious interventionist strategy to mobilise and up-skill labour with fiscal anorexia. FAS helped to resolve this contradiction by becoming the `Swiss army knife? of the Irish state: a highly flexible, multi-functional instrument used to address myriad policy problems. Its capacity to deliver policy with low fixed and low net costs contributed to its success. It was also able to manipulate both business and community groups into bearing a significant proportion of the burden associated with schemes ...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60232
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Financial Services Regulation in Ireland - the Accountability Dimension
(2002)
Westrup, Jonathan
Financial Services Regulation in Ireland - the Accountability Dimension
(2002)
Westrup, Jonathan
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Financial Services Regulation in Ireland - the Accountability Dimension assesses Ireland?s new financial regulatory structure. The study utilises two perspectives: an international comparison of the accountability structure of financial regulators in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and a domestic comparison tracing the evolution of the Irish utility regulators? structures. The paper argues that the basis of an accountability structure for the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSRA) should include explicit objectives and a process of performance evaluation, and questions whether these conditions have been met in the case of the Irish utility regulators. In addition, the paper finds the Oireacthas committee system struggles to carry out its oversight function of regulatory agencies and that significant reform is required if it is to succeed in this role in the case of the IFSRA. The provision of a consumer panel, with access to its own research capability, is also rec...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60508
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Free Movement between Ireland and the UK: from the "common travel area" to The Common Travel Area
(2000)
Meehan, Elizabeth
Free Movement between Ireland and the UK: from the "common travel area" to The Common Travel Area
(2000)
Meehan, Elizabeth
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Free Movement between Ireland and the UK: from the "common travel area" to The Common Travel Area is about Ireland's preservation of the Irish-British Common Travel Area through securing the same exemptions as those of the UK from the EU's abolition of internal border controls. It outlines the CTA's history of co-ordinated immigration policies, to safeguard free movement between the islands, and reciprocal rights which facilitate movement. It argues that Ireland's co-operation with the UK was always based upon its own interests, autonomously defined. It explores conditions relating to those interests under which Irish policy priorities might be reordered. It concludes that the time may be ripe for Ireland to persuade the UK that there is a common interest in merging the CTA and EU zones of freedom.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60513
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Fuel Poverty and Policy in Ireland and the European Union
(2003)
Healy, Jonathan
Fuel Poverty and Policy in Ireland and the European Union
(2003)
Healy, Jonathan
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Despite Government spending in excess of ?63m per annum on income supplements to mitigate fuel poverty, almost one-in-ten Irish households suffer from persistent fuel poverty. This paper review levels of fuel poverty across the EU using a new (Consensual) methodology founded on socially perceived necessities. It is found that southern Europe suffers from the highest national incidences of fuel poverty, however the national estimate of fuel poverty in Ireland is among the highest in northern Europe. The incidence of fuel poverty is highest among low-income groups, such as lone parents and the unemployed. As many as 2,000 excess winter deaths in Ireland are associated with fuel poverty and domestic energy inefficiency. Lack of income and information are found to be the main reasons for households failing to invest in energy efficiencies. It is argued that southern European nations like Greece, Spain and Portugal need to adopt the most radical policy shifts in tackling energy ineffici...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60275
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Global Positioning of Irish Higher Education: the way forward
(2009)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Global Positioning of Irish Higher Education: the way forward
(2009)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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This presentation addresses the question as to how Ireland should globally position itself, and what are the appropriate policies and processes that should be adopted to best enable Ireland to respond.
https://arrow.dit.ie/cseroth/19
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Growing Research:Challenges for Late Developers and Newcomers
(2004)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Growing Research:Challenges for Late Developers and Newcomers
(2004)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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Across OECD countries, governments, policy makers and university managers are examining the future of higher education and questioning the role of educational research. These discussions are taking place against the backdrop that knowledge production and the contribution of higher education to the economy and the prestige and standing of nations is rapidly transforming the once benign higher education system into a competitive market place. Moreover, many governments believe the existing system of funding and/or organisation is no longer sustainable. Should research funding be spread equitably across many institutions or should only a few concentrate on research and the rest focus on teaching and training? If massification was a major force on higher education in OECD countries in the latter half of the 20th century, then competition driven in part by institutional research capacity is playing a similar role in the early 21st century. These forces are influencing in a very directive...
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserart/13
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Growth Strategies and Intellectual Capital Formation in New and Emerging HEIs
(2003)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Growth Strategies and Intellectual Capital Formation in New and Emerging HEIs
(2003)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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Higher educational institutions are being asked to contribute more effectively and efficiently to economic growth, innovation and intellectual capital. As they do so, the academy has also come under pressure. The content of academic work, the role of faculty, and the balance between teaching, research and service, have, arguably, been restructured, reconfigured and redefined. For academics within traditional universities, pressures for accountability and social relevance have challenged what many valued as ‘their autonomy’. But, for staff within new and emerging HEIs, those formed or reconstituted circa. 1970, there have been different pressures. Many were hired originally as teachers and now face increasing pressures to spend more time conducting research. Growing research is not without costs. Based on an international study, this chapter seeks to understand how new HEIs are responding to the challenges and the extent to which human resources issues impact on institutional and res...
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserbk/4
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Handle with Care
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Handle with Care
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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This article discusses the impact of rankings on higher education.
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserart/22
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Higher Education at a time of Economic Crisis: is it good-bye to the Celtic Tiger?
(2009)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Higher Education at a time of Economic Crisis: is it good-bye to the Celtic Tiger?
(2009)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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This presentation provides an overview of the effect of the global economic crisis on Irish higher education.
https://arrow.dit.ie/cseroth/21
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How (not) to do public policy: Water charges and local property tax
(2018)
O'Leary, Jim
How (not) to do public policy: Water charges and local property tax
(2018)
O'Leary, Jim
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Two of the most contentious measures introduced as part of the severe fiscal consolidation necessitated by Ireland’s recent economic and financial crisis were the Local Property Tax and water charges. The two measures had an amount in common. Initially it was envisaged that each would raise of the order of €500m annually.1 They also shared a troubled history. Attempts to implement water charges in the 1990s had run into sufficiently strong opposition as to render them a no-go area for policy makers for the next decade or more. The fate of the modest and short-lived Residential Property Tax, abolished in 1997, had a similar inhibiting effect on policy in relation to the taxation of property. The crisis, in particular its catastrophic consequences for the public finances, meant that all bets were off. Revenue-raising measures previously deemed politically unacceptable were forcefully propelled onto the agenda. The first formal indication that government was proposing to reintroduce wa...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/10045
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How Foreign Firms Transformed Ireland’s Domestic Economy
(2013)
Donnelly, Paul
How Foreign Firms Transformed Ireland’s Domestic Economy
(2013)
Donnelly, Paul
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Today, Ireland is host to 1,033 multinational corporations. They directly employ 152,785 and account for 70 per cent or €122.5bn of exports. It’s a story that has its roots in the 1940s.
https://arrow.dit.ie/buschmarart/132
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Immigration and Redistribution
(2020)
Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff
Immigration and Redistribution
(2020)
Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff
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One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we review the theoretical and empirical literature on immigration and redistribution from across the social sciences. We focus on two themes, namely the effect of immigration on natives’ support for redistribution, and the effect on the actual setting of tax and spending policies. Recent empirical evidence suggests that immigration lowers the support for redistribution and leads to lower taxation and spending. However, the magnitude of these effects appears to be highly context-dependent.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11585
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Institutional Mission vs. Policy Constraint?: Unlocking Potential
(2005)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
Institutional Mission vs. Policy Constraint?: Unlocking Potential
(2005)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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The research-intensive and competitive knowledge society is putting HEIs (higher education institutions) under the spotlight. While many HEIs around the world do not proclaim or wish to be research-intensive institutions the majority desire to intensify their research activity because it is seen as a sine qua non of higher education. Accordingly, HEIs are busy making critical strategic choices concerning human resources, the research environment, the teaching-research nexus, organisational and management structure, and funding. Governments are also making choices, using policies and financial instruments to help shape institutional mission, priorities and HE systems. But if governments genuinely desire to widen access to the knowledge society and achieve a greater contribution from higher education to economic and social development more is required. This paper applies Porter’s diamond of competitive advantage to illustrate the complex relationship between institutional mission and ...
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserart/11
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International Comparisons: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
International Comparisons: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen
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The presentation addresses the question of why international comparisons, e.g. rankings and benchmarking, have become so important for higher education. It looks at the thinking behind making comparisons, what kind of evidence we need to make valid comparisons and explore the basic questions of indicators, data, whether the process is fit-for-purpose, and the pitfalls in using comparative data.
https://arrow.dit.ie/cseroth/24
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Ireland
(2004)
mottiar, ziene
Ireland
(2004)
mottiar, ziene
https://arrow.dit.ie/tfschhmtbook/10
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Ireland: the Challenges of Building Research in a Binary HE Culture
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen; Moynihan, Amanda
Ireland: the Challenges of Building Research in a Binary HE Culture
(2010)
Hazelkorn, Ellen; Moynihan, Amanda
https://arrow.dit.ie/cserbk/1
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Ireland's Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda
(2010)
Collins, Micheal; Walsh, Mary
Ireland's Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda
(2010)
Collins, Micheal; Walsh, Mary
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Tax Expenditures, also known as tax incentives or tax breaks, represent an infrequently explored and little understood area of Irish public policy. Despite this, they account for more than ?11 billion per annum in exchequer revenue forgone ? equivalent to over 5.5% of GDP and more than one-fifth of total tax revenue (2006 figures). The study examines the current tax expenditure regime in Ireland and highlights the role that tax expenditures should play in the Budgetary adjustment planned for late 2010 and in subsequent years. The paper reviews the nature and scale of Ireland's tax expenditure system in a national and international context. It then considers their impact, advantages, limitations and consequences. Finally the paper outlines a series of reforms to tax expenditures; reforms which if implemented would yield the exchequer considerable savings and establish a more appropriate and better administered tax expenditure system.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60195
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Irish public opinion on assisted human reproduction services: Contemporary assessments from a national sample
(2013)
Walsh, David J; Sills, Eric Scott; Collins, Gary S; Hawrylyshyn, Christine A; Sokol, Pi...
Irish public opinion on assisted human reproduction services: Contemporary assessments from a national sample
(2013)
Walsh, David J; Sills, Eric Scott; Collins, Gary S; Hawrylyshyn, Christine A; Sokol, Piotr; Walsh, Anthony PH
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<p>The original article is available at <a href="http://ecerm.org">http://ecerm.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To measure Irish opinion on a range of assisted human reproduction (AHR) treatments.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A nationally representative sample of Irish adults (n=1,003) were anonymously sampled by telephone survey.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>Most participants (77%) agreed that any fertility services offered internationally should also be available in Ireland, although only a small minority of the general Irish population had personal familiarity with AHR or infertility. This sample finds substantial agreement (63%) that the Government of Ireland should introduce legislation covering AHR. The range of support for gamete donation in Ireland ranged from 53% to 83%, depending on how donor privacy and disclosure policies are presented. For example, ...
https://epubs.rcsi.ie/obsgynart/20
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Land Value Taxation: Persuasive Theory but Practically Difficult
(2005)
Dunne, Tom
Land Value Taxation: Persuasive Theory but Practically Difficult
(2005)
Dunne, Tom
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While the theoretical case for Land Value Taxation is regarded as being very persuasive, most people looking closely at the idea form the view that the practical difficulties of introducing it into an established modern economy are compelling. Nevertheless, in Europe and America the ideas put forward by George continue to influence many people discussing issues around land use planning, urban development and methods of funding infrastructure and local government.
https://arrow.dit.ie/beschrecart/1
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Land Values as a Source of Local Government Finance
(2004)
Dunne, Tom
Land Values as a Source of Local Government Finance
(2004)
Dunne, Tom
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Funding local government has been a permanent feature of debates about public policy in Ireland and Many feel that the balance of power between local and central government is weighted too much in This paper suggests that the concept of economic rent, on which the justification for property taxes rests and its relevance to the property market in a modern, economically successful and urbanised Ireland, needs to be vented, discussed and debated. The proposition is that if a greater understanding was created about the economic characteristics of landed property both value capture and local property taxes would achieve greater public acceptance. They then could be used to facilitate more accountable and responsive local government. The paper is organised into three parts: Part one is a discussion about the specialist field of land and property economics. Noting that land and property have special characteristics, the paper suggests that the economics of property markets are not well und...
https://arrow.dit.ie/beschrebk/4
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